Southeast Asian Dipterocarp origin and diversification driven by Africa-India floristic interchange

Autor: Mahi Bansal, Robert J. Morley, Shivaprakash K. Nagaraju, Suryendu Dutta, Ashish Kumar Mishra, Jeyakumar Selveraj, Sumit Kumar, Deepti Niyolia, Sachin Medigeshi Harish, Omer Babiker Abdelrahim, Shaa eldin Hasan, Bramasamdura Rangana Ramesh, Selvadurai Dayanandan, Harsanti P. Morley, Peter S. Ashton, Vandana Prasad
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Science (New York, N.Y.). 375(6579)
ISSN: 1095-9203
Popis: The evolution and diversification of ancient megathermal angiosperm lineages with Africa-India origins in Asian tropical forests is poorly understood because of the lack of reliable fossils. Our palaeobiogeographical analysis of pollen fossils from Africa and India combined with molecular data and fossil amber records suggest a tropical-African origin of Dipterocarpaceae during the mid-Cretaceous and its dispersal to India during the Late Maastrichtian and Paleocene, leading to range expansion of aseasonal dipterocarps on the Indian Plate. The India-Asia collision further facilitated the dispersal of dipterocarps from India to similar climatic zones in Southeast Asia, which supports their out-of-India migration. The dispersal pathway suggested for Dipterocarpaceae may provide a framework for an alternative biogeographic hypothesis for several megathermal angiosperm families that are presently widely distributed in Southeast Asia.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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